The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Wrong To Bear Armitage?

He's back with another, er, bombshell. On behalf of -- as CNN puts it -- "bully" America, Armitage is alleged to have threatened "ally" Pakistan with stone-age destruction after 9/11! (Armitage denies the allegation. In so many words. At present.) But how did Pakistan wind up as such a reliable ally anyway? My take on the incredible truth here.

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James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.